diff --git a/_includes/desc-item b/_includes/desc-item
index 5f6022afa61..a9a58045eeb 100644
--- a/_includes/desc-item
+++ b/_includes/desc-item
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
             {% endif %}
         </div>
         <div class="tile-subtitle text-gray">
-            {% assign file = include.version | append:'/desc/' | append:include.elem | append:'.txt' | downcase %}
+            {% assign file = include.version | append:'/desc/desc_' | append:include.elem | append:'.txt' | downcase %}
             {% if include.att %}
-                {% assign file = include.version | append:'/desc/' | append:include.att | append:'.txt' | downcase %}
+                {% assign file = include.version | append:'/desc/desc_' | append:include.att | append:'.txt' | downcase %}
             {% endif %}
             {% include {{ file | replace: ':', '---' }} %}</div>
     </div>
diff --git a/tools/extractGuidelines.xsl b/tools/extractGuidelines.xsl
index fc2c12f4948..1df54e8c898 100644
--- a/tools/extractGuidelines.xsl
+++ b/tools/extractGuidelines.xsl
@@ -94,14 +94,14 @@
             <xsl:variable name="object" select="."/>
             
             <!-- create desc snippet in _includes for inclusion in guidelines -->
-            <xsl:variable name="path" select="$includes.folder || 'desc/' || @ident || '.txt'" as="xs:string"/>
+            <xsl:variable name="path" select="$includes.folder || 'desc/desc_' || @ident || '.txt'" as="xs:string"/>
             <xsl:result-document href="{lower-case($path)}" omit-xml-declaration="yes">
                 <xsl:apply-templates select="./tei:desc/node()" mode="plain"/>
             </xsl:result-document>
             
             <!-- create desc snippets in _includes for all directly defined attributes -->
             <xsl:for-each select=".//tei:attDef">
-                <xsl:variable name="path" select="$includes.folder || 'desc/' || $object/@ident || '/' || replace(@ident,':','---') || '.txt'" as="xs:string"/>
+                <xsl:variable name="path" select="$includes.folder || 'desc/' || $object/@ident || '/desc_' || replace(@ident,':','---') || '.txt'" as="xs:string"/>
                 <xsl:result-document href="{lower-case($path)}" omit-xml-declaration="yes">
                     <xsl:apply-templates select="./tei:desc/node()" mode="plain"/>
                 </xsl:result-document>